I rewatched the episodes. I liked them more the second time. I'm just a Jim fan amd I though ght his storylines were weak. Brian is an interesting development as long as Pam shoots him down if it ever comes to that. And where was Pete?

Brilliant letting one of Scott Pioli's henchmen have his own team to ruin. One of the premier GM jobs in the NFL and it gets handed to a stupid **** who makes three facepalm moves for every good one. Awesome. Just like handing a new Mercedes to a 16 year old girl who's already been in three wrecks.

It's worth pointing out, as Brian Baumgartner did on Twitter today, that Pam cheated (or at least kissed) another man while engaged to Roy ... but it's not like we need to be fearful of a non-happy resolution to Jim and Pam's strife.

Brilliant letting one of Scott Pioli's henchmen have his own team to ruin. One of the premier GM jobs in the NFL and it gets handed to a stupid **** who makes three facepalm moves for every good one. Awesome. Just like handing a new Mercedes to a 16 year old girl who's already been in three wrecks.

I just hope they don't soften Andy's dickishness now that they went to that extreme yesterday. Give his character some semblance of closure and a happier ending, sure, but don't have the whole office (and Erin) back to propping him up as a good boss ever again.

The thing with Brian still doesn't bother me. I feel like it's been handled well because it has coincided with a legitimate Pam/Jim conflict and will only make for a bigger pay-off in the end.

Loved yesterday's characterization of Dwight, so basically the show is back to alternating between good and bad Dwight on an episode to episode basis. I am glad his spin-off was not picked up.

I want more David Wallace. He's a reminder of when the corporate aspect of the show wasn't a trainwreck (Sabre era DM), and he's always been a good voice of reason.

That episode was just so bizarre. I didn't dislike it, but the different plots couldn't have been more haphazardly assembled. It felt like the Dwight/Angela and Toby/Strangler/Nellie plots were those deleted plot threads that often don't make the final episode cut after editing it down. They weren't bad. They just existed completely independent of the rest. Same with the Oscar tag at the end.

But I didn't dislike it. I'm glad they're continuing to paint Andy as a villain. Changing gears would just be really unnatural and a disappointment now that they've committed to his lunacy.

That episode was just so bizarre. I didn't dislike it, but the different plots couldn't have been more haphazardly assembled. It felt like the Dwight/Angela and Toby/Strangler/Nellie plots were those deleted plot threads that often don't make the final episode cut after editing it down. They weren't bad. They just existed completely independent of the rest. Same with the Oscar tag at the end.

But I didn't dislike it. I'm glad they're continuing to paint Andy as a villain. Changing gears would just be really unnatural and a disappointment now that they've committed to his lunacy.

It's very possible that many of those scene were deleted scenes from previous episodes. The episode was originally a half hour but a late call by NBC changed it to an hour.